[Please remove all old content that is not pertinent to your reply including old headers and footers. It's list policy.... this post was modified to meet policy] If you bail out over the ocean, miles from rescue with your location unknown, you will probably drown or die of hypothermia. So, in that case I think bailing out would be a point of no return. If your definition of PONR (aircraft with contents returning) is the official definition of PONR, then I guess I can't argue with you, but it seems logical to me that the expression refers to the option open to the human, not the plane. Mike Kory, So. Cal. In a message dated 5/10/2008 10:44:16 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, crjungers_at_gmail.com writes: You can always bail out... if that were the criteria then there would never be a point of no return. The term refers to the aircraft - with its contents - returning. With the B-25 mission there was never that option. Once they were halfway down that carrier deck they were committed to the entire mission. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun May 11 2008 - 19:50:54 PDT
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